Holidays and Celebrations

  • Late October Weekend

    Solid weekend doings around here, solid.  A better fall weekend there never was, I would argue.  Friday saw me tooling in the hybrid down I-10 solo towards our little pied a terre in…

  • Bandelier

    The following morning, the Professor lights the already-built fire (LUXURY), and we listen to New Age Native American flute music, which is sort of unlike us, but perfect in this context.  He reads…

  • To Market to Market

    **Edited to add a bit that I had written before and inadvertently left off, added at the top.*** The next day – what day is it?  Saturday? – dawns bright and fair, another…

  • Birthday Parties – 2 of 2

    When Jack turned three, all friends and family independently bought him Play Doh.  Three appears to the be Year of Play Doh.  (Four, by the way, is the Year of Hot Wheels and…

  • Birthday Parties – 1 of 2

    When Liam turned one, he had pretty much no party.  I was living and working apart from my family, staying in a hotel and seeing them only on weekends (or every other weekend).…